Goodbye!

Okay. We are leaving early tomorrow morning to drive to Texas to visit family and friends. On Sunday, my dad and I are going to drive to Dallas, TX to meet up with a missions team from our church, fly to McAllen, TX, then drive over the border into Mexico. We will be down there for a week building the second story of a small church out of concrete. After that we will drive back over the border, fly to Dallas, say goodbye to our friends, and drive back to my grandparents house. Two days later, we will drive from there to West Palm Beach, Florida!(The drive will take two days!) We will be there for two and a half weeks! Then over the next three days, we will drive home, just three days before the school semester starts at Johnson County Community College for a grand total of five weeks of vacation. So yeah. That is my crazy summer.

I will miss you all so much! I might be able to post pictures while I'm gone because we are bringing my dad's computer... But no promises. =D

So, God bless you all while I'm gone!

Love you, guys!

~Vivian

We're Home!

As most of you know, my Great-Grandma Lee just passed away a week ago. So, my family and I flew out to Denver, CO for the funeral service. I got to see some of my relatives that I have not seen in years. It was a bittersweet reunion. We keep on telling each other that we need to get together when there is not a death in the famiy. After the funeral, we drove out to the middle of Kansas where we went in April for my Great-Grandpa Glen's funeral, Geneseo. (My relatives that have passed are on two different sides of my family.)

Here we are eating at a restraunt after the funeral in Denver.
On the left side of the table is Grandpa Joe and Grandma Laura, Uncle Rick and Auntie Lisa, Christian, Jesse, and Spencer. On the right side are Me, Sophie, Dad, Mom, Joseph, and Aunt Lori (Grandma Lee's youngest sister).

These are some pretty cool stain-glass windows in a church that we had lunch in Geneseo.


These are some of my long lost cousins.
Left to Right: Brianna, Shari, Billy, Bevin, Braden, Brody, Brittney, Rob.

It was so cold! Thankfully after the gravesite service, the church there prepared a meal and warm drinks for all.

Me, my Dad, Uncle Rick, Grandma Laura, and Aunt Loni at the church

As you can see by Christian's face, it was very cold. It was really 1 degree out but the wind chill was at some points
-15 degrees. *BRRR*

Grandpa Joe and Grandma Laura at the gravesite.

Grandma Lee's final resting place in Geneseo, KS







*GASP* Joseph is SMILING?





Sophie's cat, Sammy, making himself comfortable on Mom and Dad's bed.

Spencer and Jesse are very fond of Mario, to put it very lightly. So, when they got new t-shirts... Well, let's just say that they were very happy...

It was really nice to see my cousins so soon...

Chocolate Cake+ Jesse= Happiness :)


Have a wonderful week!

Eternal Life

When your young, life seems long. But you'll soon find out once you're out of school for five, ten, twenty years that life is short and you'll know what the Bible means when it says that life is "a mist that appears for a little while then vanishes." (James 4:14 NIV)We can be thankful that this is not he end of the story. God has promised us eternal life to those who give their earthly lives to him. That is a great trade!

"Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you, for on him the Father, God, has sent his zeal." JOHN 6:27 NASB

"The world is passing away, and also it lusts; but the one who does the will of the Lord will live forever. 1 JOHN 2:17 NASB

"For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens."
2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 NKJV

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has eternal life."
JOHN 6:47 NASB

When you were born, you cried while everyone was happy.
The only question that matters is this:
When you die,
will you be happy when everyone else is crying?
~Tony Campolo

This was my devotion this morning from the book Light My Path For Teens. This will be my last post for a while. I am going on a vacation for seventeen days! I will be going to Seattle, Washington for a few days, then go to one of the islands off of the state. The island we will be on is called Lopez Island. Also if you could be praying for my grandma, she just got in a car accident about twenty minutes ago. It was not her fault, though. She was going to drive through a green light when a man decided to make a left hand turn in front of her. My grandma is okay, but the man was hurt. I don't know how serously he was injured. She had to call a tow truck to come and get her van, so I guess it is pretty beat up. This is Vivian H. signing off for two and a half weeks. BEACH HERE I COME!

Volcanoes and Goodbye...

Tomorrow, my family and I will be going to a little town in central Kansas called Geneseo. We are going for my great-grandpa Glen's burial service. All my cousins on my mom's side are coming (All 4 of them :D) also my aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, great-grandma, great-uncle, great-great-uncle and some of his reletives. So, really, it is a really big family reunion. All that to say, I will be gone Friday thru Monday afternoon. I am bringing my camera, so hopefully I will have some pictures for you when I get back.

P.S. I have been doing papers on volcanoes and in the process, I found this really cool picture. (It lookes even cooler close up.)


P.S.S
If you could be praying for us while we are gone, I would really appriciate it. Thanks :)

This is Vivian H. signing off.

Farwell

My Grandpa is a lot better now. He is in the place where God's enduring promise never fails. Grandpa Glen is singing with the angels...